Measuring-machine



(No Modei.)

T. A. BELL.

MEASURING MACHINE.

Nb; 267,826. Patented Nov. 21, 13,82.

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UNITEDSTATES PATENT THOMAS A. BELL, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY.-

SPECIFIC Jaw To all whom itagnay concern Be it known that I, THOMAS A. BELL, of Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved lVIeasuring-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to facilitate the measuring of belting, bands, or pieces of fabric.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation ofmyimproved measuring-machine. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal elevation of the wooden shell upon which-the material or fabric is wound after having been measured. Fig. 4; is a longitudinal elevation of the tapered mandrel that is passed into the shell.

The measuring-wheel A, which can have any suitable circumference-for instance, ten feet has its circumference subdivided into feet and inches, and, if desired, into fractions of inches.

This wheel is journaled in the ends of support ing-bars B, pivoted to one of the standards 0 of the machine. A register-wheel, D, provided with a series of teeth, a, in its periphery, is pivoted to one of the barsB, and the teetha are marked 10, 20, or 30-that is, the successive multiples of the number of feet in the circumference of the wheel A. A stud or tooth, E, projecting sidewise from one of the spokes of the wheel, and being adapted to engage with the teeth of the wheel D, rotates this wheel the distance of one tooth for every revolution of the wheel. A fixed pointer, F, is attached to one of the bars B, and points to the edge of the register-wh eel D. The transverse shaft G of the roll of material I is placed into hooks H at one endof the frame of the machine, and then the material is passed over aseries of antifriction rollers, e, and the end is passed around a wooden or other shell, J, made of two or more parts, held together by a rubber sleeve, K, surrounding these two parts. A square MEASURING-MACHINE.

TTION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,826, dated November 21, 1882,

' Application filed June 9, 1882 (No model.) A

ta peredmandrel, L, is passed through this shell, which is held on it by a spline, M, passed in between the shell and the mandrel. One end of this mandrel L is passed into a hook, N, at that end of the machine-frame opposite the one to which the hooks H are fastened, and the other end of the mandrel is passed into the socket O on the end of a journaled shaft, 0, on which is mounted a cog-wheel, P, engaging with a pinion, Q, on a shaft, Q, provided with the fixed and loose pulleys R B. Each end of the machine-frame is provided with a transand locked any distance from each other, ac-

cording to the width of the material.

The operation is as follows: The wheel Dis so adjusted that the pointer F will'be at o, and the material to be measured is drawn under the wheel A and is passed around the shell J, which is pressed against the mandrel by the rubber sleeve K. By drawing part of the material under the wheel A this wheel is rotated more or less. Power is then applied, and the entire belt or fabric is wound on the shell J, and as it passes under the wheel it rotates the same, which in turn rotates the register-wheel D. When all the material has passed under the wheel A the length in multiples of the dimension of the circumference of the wheel A will be indicated by the pointerF on the wheel D, and the additional number of feet less than the circumference of the wheel A will be shown on the circumference of this wheel. The mandrel L is then removed from the socket O and the hook, and is Withdrawn from the shell J, the two sections of which are pressed together by the rubber sleeve K, so that this shell can be removed conveniently from the roll of the material.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Inameasuring-machine,thecombination, with the frame 0 and the bolt-roll and receiving-shell, arranged at opposite sides of the frame, of the arms B, pivoted to the said frame,

the measuring-wheel A, pivoted between the outer ends of the said arms and provided with the stud E, the toothed register-wheel D, pivoted to one of the said arms between its fulcrum and outer end, and the pointer F, rigidly attached to one of the said arms, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In ameasuring-machine, the combination, with the measuring and registering Wheels and devices for winding and unwinding the material to be measured, of the transverse rods S, the collars T, loosely mounted on the same, the binding-screws T, and the guide-rollers V, mounted loosely on spindles attached to the collars T, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In ameasuring-machine, the combination, with the measuring and registering wheels, of the shell J, formed of two or more parts, the rubber sleeve K, surrounding them, and the mandrel L, which is passed through this shell, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a measuring-machine, the combination with the measuring and registering wheels, of

the shell J, the rubber sleeve K, surrounding it, the mandrel L, and the spline M, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth. 7

5. 1n ameasuring-machine,the combination, with the measuring and registering wheels, of the shell J, the mandrel L, the {look N, the

shaft 0, provided with a socket, Q, for receiving the end of the mandrel, and of devices for rotating the shaft, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

THOS. A. BELL.

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J. T. RIDGEWAY, J. W. TUCKER. 

